trivia
See also: Trivia
English
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Etymology
[edit]| PIE word |
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| *tréyes |
Etymology tree
From Latin trivia, plural of trivium (“place where three roads meet”). The term came to be used for any public place, and then for anything commonplace. Furthermore, because the beginners' course at university was called trivium, the word came to be used only for anything basic, simple and trivial.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]trivia (countable and uncountable, plural trivia or trivias)
- Insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information.
- Synonym: froth
- These trivia take up too much of the day.
- This trivia takes up too much of the day.
- 1943 December, Herbert L. Bregstein, “The Armored Force and the Camera”, in Popular Photography, volume 13, number 6, page 77:
- There is the story of the famous Hollywood glamour photographer who cooled his heels around Washington for three months while waiting for one of our leading commanders, and then was granted exactly 15 minutes for the sitting. […] Our military leaders simply don't have time for such trivia. Thank God!
- A quiz game that involves obscure facts.
- I joined the trivia club this semester!
Usage notes
[edit]- Formerly, as a word derived from a Latin plural, trivia required a plural verb, as in the first usage example above. Most modern authorities accept a singular verb, and this may be the preferred usage in the US. The "game" sense is always regarded as a singular noun.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]insignificant trifles of little importance
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Noun
[edit]trivia
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin trivia.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtriʋiɑ/, [ˈt̪riʋiɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -iʋiɑ
- Syllabification(key): tri‧vi‧a
- Hyphenation(key): tri‧via
Noun
[edit]trivia
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of trivia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | trivia | triviat | |
| genitive | trivian | trivioiden trivioitten | |
| partitive | triviaa | trivioita | |
| illative | triviaan | trivioihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | trivia | triviat | |
| accusative | nom. | trivia | triviat |
| gen. | trivian | ||
| genitive | trivian | trivioiden trivioitten triviain rare | |
| partitive | triviaa | trivioita | |
| inessive | triviassa | trivioissa | |
| elative | triviasta | trivioista | |
| illative | triviaan | trivioihin | |
| adessive | trivialla | trivioilla | |
| ablative | trivialta | trivioilta | |
| allative | trivialle | trivioille | |
| essive | triviana | trivioina | |
| translative | triviaksi | trivioiksi | |
| abessive | triviatta | trivioitta | |
| instructive | — | trivioin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “trivia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The noun is a feminine substantive from trivius (“having three approaches”), from tri- (“three”) + via (“road; way”).
Pronunciation 1
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtrɪ.wi.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtriː.vi.a]
Adjective
[edit]trivia
- inflection of trivius:
Noun
[edit]trivia f (genitive triviae or triviāī, masculine trivius); first declension
- (Classical Latin) goddess worshipped at a place where three ways meet
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | trivia | triviae triviāī |
| genitive | triviae triviāī |
triviārum |
| dative | triviae triviāī |
triviīs |
| accusative | triviam | triviās |
| ablative | triviā | triviīs |
| vocative | trivia | triviae triviāī |
Related terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]trivia n
Pronunciation 2
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtrɪ.wi.aː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtriː.vi.a]
Adjective
[edit]triviā
Noun
[edit]triviā f
References
[edit]- “trivia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “trivia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- trivia in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]trivia f (plural trivias)
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *tréyes
- English terms derived from Proto-Italic
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyh₁-
- English terms derived from Latin
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- Rhymes:Finnish/iʋiɑ
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- la:Three
- la:Roads
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ibja
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